American investors are keen on high-tech start-ups because they have seen many grow into world-beaters.
The Cyberport is indeed a nice collection of buildings but it has not spurred many successful high-tech start-ups.
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The United States has strong advantages in fields such as materials science, and high-tech start-ups in these areas can prosper.
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These are to turn the bank into a lender to the sorts of high-tech start-ups in which Softbank likes to invest.
For its part, Hong Kong does not provide cash for high-tech start-ups.
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Sir James Dyson, an entrepreneur and author of a report for the Tories on Britain's exporting future, urges more tax breaks for research-intensive high-tech start-ups.
The SME board was launched in 2004 to assist smaller growth companies in China to raise capital, and the Shenzhen stock exchange added the ChiNext board, a NASDAQ-type exchange for high-growth, high-tech start-ups, in 2010.
My colleague Kathy Gersch explains that while it may be difficult for your company to generate innovative ideas, high-tech start-ups and other companies we consider to have innovation built into their DNA have just as much difficulty maintaining their innovative edge.
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The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production.
For all the seductive talk of rebalancing the economy, of reviving manufacturing, of supporting the creative industries, high-tech start-ups or whatever, the best thing that any new government can do for enterprise is to restore the public finances and stop dominating the credit markets.
This month Goldman Sachs, an American investment bank, and Kyocera, a high-tech ceramics firm, became the latest in a string of companies to announce the launch of a fund to invest in high-tech Japanese start-ups.
Who belongs to the control group of men-led high tech start-ups to which the study compares the outcomes of the 500 women-led start-ups?
It too has met with success, although a recent map promulgated by the Tech City Investment Organization, the body charged by the government with masterminding the development, that showed some 600 start-ups was met with some skepticism as companies that were not high-tech start ups had been included.
Egalitarianism has mainly been a feature of high-tech firms, though not only of start-ups: the authors compiled figures on 100 big high-tech firms and found that on average employees owned 33% of those companies' equity, of which 14% was held by the top managers and 19% by other employees.
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One of its biggest investors in SingTel and its CEO is a California-born high tech CEO with five previous start-ups in his background.
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In the U.S., when we think of start-ups, we often think about high-tech.
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High Tech, VC funded, working 120-hours a week, please pass the engineers type start-ups?
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